The CIA had created, in effect, its "own NSA" with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified.

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A state can never have enough control!!! Deffo never too much of it!!!

"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another." I. Kant, "What is Enlightenment" in "Political writings" (1784) - the basis of Modernity...

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This is the reason why I hate politics. Instead of working together to save the USA, these idiots (Both Democrats and Republicans) are slinging mud at each other and accusing each other of all this bullschitt to hide their own inadequacies.

A proper balance of helping others and getting things done. And yes. Trump played on the need of the American people to change the current system and got elected. However, it doesn't change the truth. We sorely need to get our own house in order. IMHO, the majority of Americans realize that, and are willing to do whatever it takes to get in fixed.

I think this song sums it up perfectly.

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his mind is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands, his mind, and his heart is an artist."
― Saint Francis of Assisi

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
― Werner Heisenberg

I'd rather clean latrines in the armies of Heaven, than be a general in the armies of Hell.
― (Guess... )

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As stated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution one of the functions of government is to provide for the general welfare of the people. This means the government should provide for basic human rights including adequate health care which we do not have. In fact, the average life expectancy of Americans is decreasing due to no health care. This is why we need a single payer system like every other civilized country. Government should also help us out in time of financial, and employment crises. This is the main job of the government besides protecting us from foreign invasions. We also need to completely eliminate religion from government. Religion leads to discrimination, bigotry, misogamy, and other hurtful practices. We need to be accepting of others lifestyles even if those lifestyles we are not as ours. The United States is supposed to be accepting of all regardless. We need to start electing leaders who feel this way. Only then will we be truly great.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the other person isn't doing the same!

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it looks to me like this is scaremongering of the highest order.
look at that description;HammerDrill is a CD/DVD collection tool that collects directory walks and files to a configured directory and filename
pattern as well as logging CD/DVD insertion and removal events. v2.0 adds a gap jumping capability that Trojans 32-bit
executables as they are being burned to disc by Nero. Additionally, v2.0 adds an status, termination and an on-demand
collection feature controlled by HammerDrillStatus.dll, HammerDrillKiller.dll and HammerDrillCollector.dll.
The logging now also fingerprints discs by hashing the first two blocks of the ISOInternational Standard Organization image,
which enables etc.
so; in other words; the dll then bends over backwards, jumps through the dvd hole, and hocuspocuspresto; you are infected.
i sincerely doubt if any hacker, no matter how talented, could reproduce this bs description. and
even if he could, he could make his fortune with his talents, instead of producing this malignant sh1t,
as an underpayed employee of the cia, just to please the u.s. of a.
it looks to me that this so-called leak has a distinct propaganda value about it. they have unlimited resources,
they can do anything, with state approval, so why should you even try to do something about it?
the morale;
i will believe it when i see it reproduced in the wild. meanwhile, with all due respect, i think this is bs

They state that they do not spy on U.S. citizens but I can not believe that for one second

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One would have to have the whole of his brain removed to believe that... ermmm, what with, then?

Exactly, the Alt-Right says, these guys are best for us...

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And had you followed it through you would know that the true source is Wikileaks.

But I can see in your world Killing journalists is also OK, because it didn't happen and because because this is also a farce:

Welcome to my ignore list fool.

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Great job on skewing my statement and twisting the statements and the url you posted.

Also, it's very difficult for Military to distinguish hostile to friendly while in combat... especially in an apache. If you're in a combat zone, then you better be ready for the consequences. Journalists are well aware of the risks involved and they accepted the fact they may be harmed when entering a combat zone. Had the journalists notified any regiment that they were in the area along with translators? No, obviously, they hadn't... if they had then the event may have been avoided. Was the Apache equipped with the technology today? No! It wasn't! If it were the event may have been avoided. In any case it's very unfortunate what happened in that video taken over a decade ago, which also has nothing to do with what you posted.

You clearly have no clue about events in the first Iraq war during the late 80's - 90's... the cold war... vietnam... you think that video is bad and proves some delusional conspiracy? Then you are an idiot... in Vietnam thousands of our troops were napalmed just by bad logistics and old unreliable technology and platoons just not aware. Bad s**t happens in war. People like you just need to learn to STFU over issues in which you clearly have no damn knowledge or experience about! Reading a damn paper or organizational chart doesn't make you or anyone else for that matter knowledgeable about anything, let alone information provided by Wikileaks. I suspect Wikileaks must be the Holy Grail to all knowing life! Interesting.

Also, quoting Kim Dot Who as evidence or as credible facts... LOL. YOU ARE SUCH A TOOL AND IGNORANT!

Clearly you're just some kid with absolutely no military and life experience. You are the Fool. Holy balls on fire... generations just keep becoming dumber and dumber.